A new company reinventing the browser as a user platform for speed,
privacy, and micropayments, Brave Software, has introduced the beta
version of Brave Payments the startup's bitcoin-based micropayments
system.

Brendan Eich, President and CEO of Brave Software, said, "For
the first time in the history of web browsers, people can now seamlessly
reward the sites whose content they value and wish to support, while
remaining untracked by anyone, including us at Brave Software,
Inc."

Brave Payments allows users to send small payments to sites, at
whatever aggregate support level they want.

Eich says that users shouldn't have to pay anything to avoid
ads, but if a website depends on ad revenue, Brave Payments is a way to
help these sites, privately and effectively, while blocking ads.